Stenciling



'entran sra'rrs PATENT orrion.

EZEKIEL B. FOSTER, OF NORTHERN LIBERTIES, PENNSYLVANIA.

STENCILIN'G".

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,045, dated May 13, 1845.

To all whom Z5 may concern Be it known that I, EZEKIEL B. FOSTER, of Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Stencil Painting and Printing; and I do hereby declare that the following is ar full and exact description.

The nature of my invention ,consists in forming all the letters of the alphabet in Stencil painting and printing by means of nine characters by changnig, reversing and combining the said characters. Thus making nine characters to answer the place of twenty seven letters, in the operation of which the letters are made more perfectleaving no spaces or interstices to be filled up after the brush has passed over the stencil as in the present mode, or mode now in use.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction vand operation.

The accompanying draft or plan represents the nine characters, numbered from l to 9. These characters are cut in very thin sheet brass, copper, tin or other material in the manner and way stencil letters are now cut.` The letters are then formed and painted by means of the characters so cut and a brush dipped in paint or ink and rubbed over the stencil in the usual mode.

The letters are formed by theV characters as E. G is formed by No. 3, and then cross ing the lower termination of the character` by a fraction of No. 2. H is formed by No. 2 making parallel lines and crossing them or making the tie with a fractional partV thereof. I is made by a single impression of No. 2. J is formed by No. 9 and adding to the right arm a fractional part of No. 2. K is formed by No. 2, and No. 5 combined. L is formed by No. 2 as in the case of E Vand F. M is formed by No. 2, making parallel lines at the pro-per distance from each other as in H and inserting between them No. 1 reversed. N is formed by No. 2 making parallel lines as in H and diagonally crossed from the botto-1n of the right hand line to the top of the left hand line. O is formed by No. 3 as in C and then reversed.

P is formed by No. 2 and adding to the formed by No. 2, first made perpendicular and then made horizontally across the top of the perpendicular line. U is formed by No. 9 and adding to the right and left arms a fraction of No. 2. V is formed by reversing N o. l. Wv is formed by two connected impressions of No. l, reversed. X is formed by No. 5 as represented and a reversed impression annexed. Y is formed by reversed impressions of the top half of No. 5, and adding to the bottom a part of No. 2. Z is formed by No. 2 by-two horizontal parallel lines and a diagonal line as in N in a reversed posit-ion. & is formed by reversed im pressions o-f No. 4, leaving the top open.

This system will apply as well to the Roman and Octagon letters as to the block letters exhibited in the plan.

Vhat l claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The mode of forming and printing the letters in stencil printing or painting by means of the combination of the characters represented in the .draft and numbered l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, essentially in the manner described, and the nine characters so represented.

E. B. FOSTER. Vitnesses ELIHU D. LAW, GEORGE ERETY. 

